Reply #29: Campaign Letterhead NOT Official OH SOS Letterhead

[luaptifer]

Blackwell's office is responsible for authentication of OH-related documents for international purposes. Form applying for cert. shows a very different seal, same as on the previous pdf i linked and having no similarity to the campaign solicition letter.

certification app form

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/authen/coverLetter.pdf

elsewhere, an approximation of the state of ohio's official seal captures the same elements embodied in the SOS docs and nowhere near Blackwell's campaign literature seal.

http://www.shgresources.com/oh/symbols/seal/

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related different topic, kind of interesting:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ktfYVp8FgGsJ:cantonrepository.com/index.php%3FCategory%3D26%26ID%3D154608%26r%3D0+%22Brian+K.+Hicks%22&hl=en

Cheney is star of fund-raiser, but Blackwell steals the show
Friday, April 2, 2004
By PAUL E. KOSTYU Copley Columbus Bureau chief

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"State Sen. Jeff Jacobson, R-Vandalia, had the task of introducing local and state officials who did attend. Jacobson read from a list compiled by lunch organizers. As he was doing so, in walked Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.

Jacobson and Blackwell don’t get along too well. They have clashed repeatedly over campaign reform and voting machines. Blackwell wants to speed things along to get electronic machines; Jacobson wants to move more cautiously. Blackwell wants to spend gobs of money on the machines; Jacobson does not. Blackwell wants to repeal the state’s temporary increase in the sales tax; Jacobson does not. Blackwell wants to run for governor in 2006; Jacobson will become Senate president in 2005.

As Blackwell made his way to his lunch seat, stopping to glad-hand at every table he passed, he crossed within a few feet in front of Jacobson, who continued reading from his list. When he finished, Jacobson failed to recognize Blackwell.

“If I missed anybody, they gave me the list,” he said referring to lunch organizers.


It’s hard to miss the 6-foot, 4-inch, African-American Blackwell in a sea of white faces when no one else is standing. U.S. Rep. Michael Turner, R-Dayton, acknowledged Blackwell’s presence later.

Brian K. Hicks, Taft’s former chief of staff and now a Republican consultant whose clients include the Bush-Cheney campaign, said with a smile that Blackwell had “impeccable timing.” Hicks tried to help out Jacobson, saying he may not have seen Blackwell because “those lights are bright up there.”

Or maybe Jacobson’s glasses were fogged. In any case, the show was worth more than the lunch."